Incorrect Authorization in GitLab
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 13.12 before 16.2.7, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.4. It was possible for an attacker to run pipeline jobs as an arbitrary user via scheduled security scan policies. This was a bypass of [CVE-2023-3932](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-3932) showing additional impact.
- Products
- GitLab
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-5009
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:27 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 13.12 before 16.2.7, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.4. It was possible for an attacker to run pipeline jobs as an arbitrary user via scheduled security scan policies. This was a bypass of [CVE-2023-3932](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-3932) showing additional impact.
cve:CVE-2023-5009
GitLab
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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